The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-09-16
SOUTHERN eLEANlNes.


human beings, who are believed to have
been fugitive slaves.
Philip Schembs, a Louisville (Ky.) baker,
committed suicide a few days ago while
con1nedsin the county Jail, by cutting his
throat and the main artery in his left arm
with tin bucket.
Hon. r. Reynolds, of Aberdeen, Miss.
died few days ago after two months
illness and confinement to his room and
bed.
Dooly County (Ga.) trapper caught a
horned owl recently. Prior to his capture
his owlship had feastsd on ten goslings.
G. n. Fain, of CarrolIton, Ca, has in his
possession the inaugural address delivered
by ex-President Polk, November IA, 1889,
after his election to the gubernatorial
chair of Tennessee. The address is hand
somely printed on a piece of white silk,
1Sx1S inches, and was presented to Cap
tain Fain's grandfather, and will, NO
doubt, pass through the hands of many
generations to come, as it is a relic worth
preserving.
A movement among the brakeman of the
Louisville & Nashville railroad at Birming.
ham, Ala, is on foot which, it is said, will
result in a general strike over the whole
road, and also take in men of the Alabama
Great Southern railroad. The trouble
grows out of the refusal of the road to ac-
cede to the petition for pay for delayed
time-eighteen cents an hour being asked
when trains are over an hour late.
The school population of Hot Springs.
Ark, is two thousand.
The landlords of Birmingham, Ala, have
raised rents fifty per cent.
Twenty cotton congresses will be op.
Grated in Mississippi this year.
MOnkeytOwn is the name of a new post
Office in Yazoo County, Miss.
a mill-Owner at Ripley, Tenn, ships
weekly 800, 900 feet of poplar and oak lum.
ber to Northern markets.
Fig trees are bearing a second crop of
fruit near Tallahassee, Fla.
The martins at Martinsville, Va, have
made systematic war upon the English
sparrows, and have completely driven
them out Of the place.
The water from the Daniel spring, Geor-
gia, is said to be a natural hair dye. Bath
ing gray hair with it will change the color
to black.
The smallest man in Tennessee is Daniel
Hance, of Madison County, who although
thirty-seven years old, is not three feet
high, and weighs only sixty pounds. 1t is
said he has voice like fog horn.
Cotton worms have appeared very gen
orally throughout the counties of South
Alabama, and will do great damage to the
late cotton.
A batch of carrier-pigeons liberated at
Little Rock, Ark, recently, flew to New
port, KY, distance offive hundred miles,
in eleven hours and five minutes.
William L. Miller, of Charleston, S. c.,
has two immense iron shells, said to be the
first two shots fired al Battery Wa gner at
the beginning of the war. The shells were
never exploded; they weigh two hundred
pounds each.
Miss Cawhorn, of Carroll County, Tenn,
never learned to walk, and has to be car
ried about like a baby. She weighs 100
pounds. She is not lame, but simply
does not know how to use her lower
| limbs.
Fifteen hundred students from the vari-
Gus colleges in Georgia will take part in
and be one of the principal features of the
parade at Atlanta on tho occasion ofPres-
dent CIeveland's reception,
Henry W. Grady, of the Atlanta Con-
StitutiOR, is said to have been offered by a
lecture manager $4,000 to tell the North
next winter the story of the New South.
William Aiken, who was Governor of
South Carolina in 1874 and served three
terms in Congress prior to 1857. died few
days ago, aged eighty-one years. He
owned more slaves than any other man in
the State before the war, but opposed
secession.
Some months since Colonel Joseph S
Baugh, an OglethOrpe (Ga.) bachelor, ad-
vertised for a wife. He was deluged with
letters from all parts of the United States.
He distributed several of these letters
among his bachelor friends. At leas
three weddings will be the result of this
correspondence.
A negro girl was bitten by a venomous
snake while gathering muscadines in Vine
vile, Ga, few days since. The wound
caused her leg to swell rapidly, but a
prompt application of whisky and turpen-
tine saved her.
Deputy United States MarshaIs Spurrier,
Young and Graves recently made a raid
on the moonshiners of Clay County, Tenn,
and report the arrest of several illicit dis
/ tillers and the destruction of crooked es-
tablishments.
John Casteel shot and killed rattle :
/ snake near the MicOn gold mine, four miles
northwest of Canton, Ga, last week,
/ which measured four feet four inches in
length and seven inches around, and had
nine rattles and the inevitable button. He
was an ugly, dangerous looking fellow,
although he showed no signs of fight.
DR.. J. g. John, missionary secretary of
the Methodist Episcopal Church South,
states that the returns from the special
collections for missions during the recent
week of prayer observed throughout the
Southern Methodist Church, have reached
I $4,000
An attempt was made few nights ago
to assassinate Wyatt Denny and Muck
Denny, his son, near New Middleton,
Tenn, while the two were returning from
Carthage. A shot was fired at short
range, but missed the men. The would-be
murderer escaped.
Tiney B. Thompson, a member of the
extensive lumber firm of j. J. Nc
/ Donough & Co., of Savannah, Ga, left
I the city few nights ago with $500 of
the firms money to make tour of some of
Z the mills and pay off the hands. Nothing
has been heard from him since.
While Mr.. Dick Laton, a farmer, was
returning from church in a wagon with
his two grown daughters, near Adairs-
vile, Tenn, few nights ago, the team
became frightened and ran away, throw
ing the old man and his two daughters
out. One of the young ladies was killed
instantly, her head being crushed in a
horrible manner. Mr.. Latop and his other
daughter was very seriously injured.
Cotton picking goes bravely on.
A review of the earthquake work in
Charleston, S. c., viii show that in the
past year over 5000 buildings have been
rebuilt or repaired, and that 27I absolute
ly new buildings have been erected. The
whole cost is S4,30O, 600, of which Charles.
ton spent at least S3,000,00O.
Henry Lancaster, an industrious white
boy, thirteen years old, at Jackson, Tenn.
a few days ago, was bathing in the Forked
Deer River, where the water is seven OF
eight feet deep. Henry attempted to
swim across the river, when he took the
cramp and sank to rise no more. About
two hours afterwards his body was recov-
cred near the spot where he went down.
Hiram Petit aged eighthy-three years,
died recently in Floyd County, Ga.
The chief of the Louisville (Ky.) police
was notified from Eminence, few days
ago, that all of the prisoners in Jail there
had escaped. No particulars have been
received.
Chris Baker, aged nine years, the son of
a widowed uno4ha,- n, TacEson Tenn at